2013 a few goals....

There are a few things which I'm going to change this year..

*Green Stuff

• One month of not buying anything new. Yep op-shops here we come.
• Eat 1-2 things out of the garden for one of the meals of the day.

The garden has been a bit of a hit and miss so far. At times we produce huge amount of one type of produce and we end up not eating any of it. One of the problems is we often eat what we feel like. Not what is in season. Hopefully trying to eat something out the backyard will make a difference.

• 2-3 new Pekin's/Silkies Chooks

We have had our three little chooks for a while now, they have been faithfully doing pecking buts, giving us fertiliser and eggs, but at times we are caught out with eggs so a couple more will be great.

• Start making soap

Christina likes her nice organic, etc, etc soap. The health food shop is her usual port of call but its $$$. I've been reading the 'Greening of Gavin', and doesn't look out of our ability.

Quit facebook and twitter.

This is a tough one. But there are a few things that really bug me about both.

• The advertising is really starting to ramp up.
• I'm not sure the bites of information are really that healthy. For me it's distracting. It takes me away from the now. It affect how I interact with others, and how focused I am at a task. I suppose, I want to be fully in the moment, not have an urge to check my phone for a feed.

So I've decided to keep the accounts, Facebook as an address book and to communicate with people who aren't around its good. Twitter at times is handy especially in times like fires or local emergency services. So, they are on my desktop but the apps and bookmarks are deleted on my iPad and mobile.

I'm still going to keep the RSS feed of blogs, stuff that interests me, theology, bikes, gardening. Actual articles instead of bites.

read 52 book

I think with the above gone, my old devouring of books will return. 2012 I was probably half that.

Watch 52 movies

Keep blogging...

I still enjoy putting some of my thoughts out there engaging with books.

...write a Spiritual diary

This is a bit of a maybe. I've been listening to 'The spirit of things on the ABC'. There have been a few 'Spiritual diaries' I like the often rawness, the prayers, the growth...

 

Careforce and Technology

I've been following the happenings from Careforce for a while, so this is an interesting progression. Careforce gets a mention in 'The Sun' today with the Rohan Dredge who uses the bible Iphone as well as his young members.

"The applications have multiple versions of the Bible and a hand-held version is easy and convenient," he said. "There are also options on the applications to have live interaction while the speaking is happening.
"We could well explore that in the future."

I'm wondering if the 'live interaction' is twitter which Rohan (http://twitter.com/rohandredge) also uses?

Certainly this has been reported to be happening in US Churches according to the TIMES.

Now the real test will be if Careforce has free wi-fi access...

Advice for Joe Hockey

Joe Hockey, put out a tweet for advice regarding what he should do regarding the current Liberal party turmoil. (He also had lunch with his old boss John Howard, I suspect, John dosn't use Twitter, thus the advice was face to face)

Here is the advice I Tweeted back::
"JoeHockey it the right thing to follow through on the agreement. Climate change is here to stay. Good on you supporting your leader. A+"

Interestingly on JoeHockeys friend list on tweeter is a "KRudd". I wonder what advice he gave...

Twitter, Facebook, down more power to Georgia?

Interestingly Google, Facebook, Twitter got involved in a denial of service, which brought these sites a bit of grief.
The reason attacks interested me was because twitterfeed.com which I use has been put out of action.

Interestingly as reported the attacks where related to the the Russian Georgian conflict. The person 'Cyxymu' was the intended victim for the attack. He/she used google, facebook, and twitter services.
It made me wonder was it the government of Russia that was behind these attacks; and if so it appears that its backfired on them. 'Cyxymu' now has more publicity internationally than he ever had. It also made me wonder if there was a war between two superpower. What would the cyber implications be....